What (who) is twm - definition

TAB WINDOW MANAGER FOR THE X WINDOW SYSTEM

Tom's Window Manager; Tab Window Manager; Tom LaStrange

twm

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

TWM (disambiguation); Twm (disambiguation)

Tab Window Manager. A window manager for the X Window System. Twm provides titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings. It can be extensively configured by a startup file. Twm was written by Tom LaStrange, Solbourne Computer; Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium; Steve Pitschke, {Stardent Computer}; Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium; Dave Sternlicht, MIT X Consortium; Dave Payne, Apple Computer. An extended version, vtwm, provides a virtual desktop. [Why "Tab"?] (1995-02-14)

Twm Siôn Cati

WELSH POET AND GENEALOGIST, LATER A FIGURE IN WELSH FOLKLORE

Twm Shon Catti; Twm Sion Cati; Twm Shon Catty

Twm Siôn Cati (also sometimes spelt Twm Sion Cati, historically Twm Shon Catti or Twm Shon Catty) is a figure in Welsh folklore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm_Siôn_Cati

The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti

The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti, descriptive of life in Wales: interspersed with poems is a book written by Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard in 1828.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_and_Vagaries_of_Twm_Shon_Catti

Wikipedia

Twm

twm (Tab Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window System since version X11R4. The name originally stood for Tom's Window Manager, but the software was renamed Tab Window Manager by the X Consortium when they adopted it in 1989. twm is a stacking window manager that provides title bars, shaped windows and icon management. It is highly configurable and extensible.

twm was a breakthrough achievement in the early years, but has been largely superseded by other window managers, which unlike twm, use a widget toolkit rather than writing directly against Xlib.

Various other window managers—such as vtwm, tvtwm, CTWM, and FVWM—were built on twm's source code.

twm is still standard with X.Org Server, and is available as part of many X Window System implementations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm